Twice now, Sakyan,
I’ve asked you,
but you, One with Eyes,
haven’t answered me.
“When asked the third time,
the divine seer answers”:
So I have heard.
This world, the next world,
the Brahmā world with its devas:
I don’t know how they’re viewed
by the prestigious Gotama.
So to the one who has seen
to the far extreme,
I’ve come with a desire for a question:
One who regards the world in what way
isn’t seen by Death’s King?
The Buddha:
Always mindful, Mogharāja,1
regard the world as
empty,
having removed any view
in terms of self.
This way
one is above & beyond death.
One who regards the world
in this way
isn’t seen by Death’s King.
Twice now, Sakyan,
I’ve asked you,
but you, One with Eyes,
haven’t answered me.
“When asked the third time,
the divine seer answers”:
So I have heard.
This world, the next world,
the Brahmā world with its devas:
I don’t know how they’re viewed
by the prestigious Gotama.
So to the one who has seen
to the far extreme,
I’ve come with a desire for a question:
One who regards the world in what way
isn’t seen by Death’s King?
The Buddha:
Always mindful, Mogharāja,1
regard the world as
empty,
having removed any view
in terms of self.
This way
one is above & beyond death.
One who regards the world
in this way
isn’t seen by Death’s King.
The Buddha:
Always mindful, Mogharāja,1
regard the world as
empty,
having removed any view
in terms of self.
This way
one is above & beyond death.
One who regards the world
in this way
isn’t seen by Death’s King.
vv. 1116–1119
Notes
1. Cited by the Buddha at AN 1:149 (1:234) as foremost among the monks in wearing coarse robes.
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